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Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57.

In her second Get Tooled Up article on the subject of remote working Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools. Readers may also be interested to read her blog on remote working which I am definitely finding interesting [1].

Get Tooled Up: Staying Connected: Technologies Supporting Remote Workers

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Having considered organisational issues in her previous article, Marieke Guy takes a look at the many technologies that support remote working, from broadband to Web 2.0 social networking tools.

A Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions

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R. John Robertson, Mahendra Mahey and Phil Barker introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.

Visions

In 'Lost in the IE', published in the last issue of Ariadne and in subsequent discussion on various blogs [1], [2] there has some thoughtful reflection on the vision of the JISC Information Environment (IE), its architecture and standards, the role of the IE and the role of 'that diagram' [3].

A Selection of Social Media Search Engines

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Phil Bradley takes a look at how social media output is being indexed, sorted and made available for searching by looking at some representative samples.

Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol

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Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues.

In recent years the principle of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) has grown increasingly important in digital library systems. More and more core functionalities are becoming available in the form of Web-based, standardised services which can be combined dynamically to operate across a broader environment [1].

Embedding Web Preservation Strategies Within Your Institution

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Christopher Eddie reports on the third one-day workshop of the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Project held at the University of Manchester on 12 September 2008.

iPRES 2008

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Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008.

Book Review: Managing the Crowd - Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Marieke Guy reviews a text that could offer the blueprint for moving records management into the 21st century.

I'd like to start with a disclaimer: I am not a records manager nor have I ever been a records manager. My only official qualification in the field of records management is that I took a module in it whilst studying for my MSc in Information Management many moons ago. That said, this is not a book just for records managers. The overlaps with those working in other fields such as information management, librarianship, IT services, Web management, teaching, research etc. are many. Neither is it just a book for those interested in Web 2.0 and the applications involved.

Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

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Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

Raymond Yee has produced a comprehensive book on how to consume and repurpose Web services, even for Web sites that do not intentionally expose Web services. The book is broken into four sections; understanding how to use Web content, understanding Web services, combining the data from multiple services (mashups) and detailed examples of specific mashup opportunities.

Book Review: Against the Machine

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Mahendra Mahey reviews a book which examines popular Internet culture and how it may be having negative effects on many of us.

As I spend a large part of my day (as I have for the last 12 years) in front of a computer screen connected to the Internet, I wondered what I was going to learn about a book that examines the effect that this technology has had on our culture, our minds and the way we socialise.